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Kirby, S. (2000) Syntax without Natural Selection: How compositionality emerges from vocabulary in a population of learners. In C. Knight, editor, The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Social Function and the Origins of Linguistic Form, pages 303--323. Cambridge University Press.

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